Your SaaS is built.
I make it deployable anywhere.
I take enterprise software into live customer environments — provisioning infrastructure, standing up monitoring, hardening the network, and training your teams to run it after I leave. Forward-deployed engineering, delivered as a service.
Zainab Dnaya · Forward Deployed Engineer & Infrastructure Problem-Solver
What I solve
If your product works in the demo but breaks in the field, that's the gap I close. Here's what teams bring me in for.
"It works on our machines, but deploying to each customer site takes a week and a senior engineer."
I automate the whole rollout — provisioning, containers, config as code — so a site comes online in minutes, not days, repeatably.
"Once it's deployed, we have no idea what's happening. No visibility, no alerts, no remote management."
I stand up real-time monitoring and dashboards across every endpoint, so you see health, usage, and failures live — across all sites at once.
"The customer's network is locked down and we don't control it — and it has to hold hundreds of users."
I harden and configure the network layer — firewalls, quotas, secure access — to carry 300+ concurrent users reliably, no changes to their infra.
"Every deployment leaves us on the hook forever. Nothing runs without us flying back out."
I build for handoff, not dependency — documented playbooks, SOPs, and on-site team training so your people own it after I'm gone.
Proof of delivery
One engagement, end to end: from manual, failure-prone provisioning to a monitored platform running across three continents.
Enterprise endpoint monitoring & infrastructure automation, co-architected and deployed into live campus environments worldwide.
✗ The challenge
A tech-education client (~3,000 users) was provisioning every workstation by hand — roughly a week per campus, a senior engineer required on-site, and unpredictable failures. No unified monitoring, no remote management, no cross-site visibility.
✓ What I delivered
Co-built and rolled out the platform across 7 campuses: automated provisioning, secure on-prem hosting via Proxmox, MikroTik-hardened networking for hundreds of users, and live Prometheus/Grafana monitoring — then trained each local team to run it independently.
More work
Other platforms I've built and clients I've delivered for.
CyberStand
Designed and built the platform and its infrastructure end to end — from the application to the hosting, deployment, and provisioning underneath it.
cyberstand.ai ↗MILETEC
Delivered the web presence and technical setup for an industrial installation & maintenance firm — building and shipping the site and its infrastructure for a real business.
miltec-sarl.com ↗How I work
A forward-deployed model: I embed, deliver in your real environment, and leave your team able to run it.
Assess
I learn your product and the target environment, and map exactly where deployment breaks down.
Deploy
On-site or remote, I provision, automate, network, and monitor — getting it running for real.
Harden
I make it reliable at scale: security, quotas, failover, and repeatable config as code.
Hand off
Playbooks, SOPs, and hands-on training so your team owns it. I build for independence.
What I bring to the table
A full-stack generalist's toolkit — used in service of getting your software live and stable.
Deployment & automation
Repeatable rollouts that turn week-long installs into minutes.
- Ansible
- Docker / Compose
- CI/CD
- On-prem & cloud
Infrastructure & networking
Stable, secure environments that hold up under real load.
- Proxmox
- Linux admin
- MikroTik
- Firewalls / QoS
Monitoring & reliability
Live visibility across every site, with alerts before things break.
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Observability
- Remote mgmt
Engineering & tooling
Custom tools built from field gaps — like a reporting tool that cut analysis time 60%.
- Python
- JavaScript
- Golang
- SQL / GraphQL
Training & handoff
Documentation and on-site enablement so teams run it without me.
- SOPs / playbooks
- Onboarding
- Technical writing
Security foundations
Secure access and identity baked into deployment, not bolted on.
- LDAP
- Access control
- TryHackMe certified
Ways to work together
Scoped to your situation — a single deployment, a multi-site rollout, or ongoing infrastructure partnership.
Deploy & hand off
A defined outcome: get your platform deployed, monitored, and hardened at one or more sites — with your team trained to operate it. Fixed scope, clear deliverables, documented handoff.
Multi-site rollout & support
For scaling across regions: repeatable deployment playbooks, per-site setup, and hands-on support as you expand — the forward-deployed function, without hiring for it full-time.
Background
The foundation behind the work.
Project-based software engineering at 42 Network and a mathematics degree underpin the work — rigorous problem-solving beneath hands-on, in-the-field delivery. 3+ years deploying and consulting on-site across 7 countries, coordinating from engineers to in-country CEOs.